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One of the big 3 did build the smart car. Sorta. If you count Daimler AG ( previous owner of Chrysler, and current owner of Smart) as the maker. http://en.wiki

One of the big 3 did build the smart car. Sorta. If you count Daimler AG ( previous owner of Chrysler, and current owner of Smart) as the maker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_AG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_AG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile) I'll take this opportunity to note that bailing out companies originally founded by Americans in such a globalized market is arbitrary and harmful.

ivankirigin 18y ago
note to pg, these are valid URL characters: "()" I'm surprised you of all people aren't more partial to them
- lacker 18y ago
  The problem is breaking stuff like (also see url: http://google.com http://google.com) Might be better to treat a trailing ) as not part of a url only if there is no ( earlier in the url.
  - ivankirigin 18y ago
    Indeed. Though I'm accustomed to adding a space at the end of urls.
- swombat 18y ago
  might wanna send him an email, to pg@...
- bd 18y ago
  It's possible to get around using escape sequences. In Python: import urllib print urllib.quote("en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile)") It looks ugly, but it makes links clickable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_%28automobile%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_%28automobile%29
  - ivankirigin 18y ago
    The href can be that ugly link while the parens are still visible. The issue is when to parse the parens as part of the link. Edit: but I guess you're saying I could do this to make it clickable. No thanks.
    - bd 18y ago
      Yup, that's what I ment. This is what I do when posting Wikipedia urls with parens here. For parsing parens problem, heuristics proposed by lacker seems reasonable. Anyway, I guess like 99% of broken parens cases here would be Wikipedia links, which are quite well defined (except for pages for emoticons and parens symbols themselves).
- msg 18y ago
  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10889 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10889 When is a paren not a paren? When it's punctuation.

ivankirigin 18y ago

note to pg, these are valid URL characters: "()" I'm surprised you of all people aren't more partial to them

lacker 18y ago
The problem is breaking stuff like (also see url: http://google.com http://google.com) Might be better to treat a trailing ) as not part of a url only if there is no ( earlier in the url.
- ivankirigin 18y ago
  Indeed. Though I'm accustomed to adding a space at the end of urls.
swombat 18y ago
might wanna send him an email, to pg@...
bd 18y ago
It's possible to get around using escape sequences. In Python: import urllib print urllib.quote("en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile)") It looks ugly, but it makes links clickable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_%28automobile%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_%28automobile%29
- ivankirigin 18y ago
  The href can be that ugly link while the parens are still visible. The issue is when to parse the parens as part of the link. Edit: but I guess you're saying I could do this to make it clickable. No thanks.
  - bd 18y ago
    Yup, that's what I ment. This is what I do when posting Wikipedia urls with parens here. For parsing parens problem, heuristics proposed by lacker seems reasonable. Anyway, I guess like 99% of broken parens cases here would be Wikipedia links, which are quite well defined (except for pages for emoticons and parens symbols themselves).
msg 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10889 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10889 When is a paren not a paren? When it's punctuation.